What does barbican mean?
Barbican means A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town..
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/ˈbɑːbɪkən/ · noun
A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town..
Near-synonym: guardhouse
The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair. […] There was a large hidden trapdoor in the floor of the barbican, which would let them into the moat after all.
Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans.
Use barbican when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Barbican means A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town..
Common synonyms include guardhouse, balistraria, arrowslit, arrow slit.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: guardhouse
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